Sculpted Beauty by Iva Kujundžić

Meet Iva Kujundžić, a Belgrade based artist/designer, who describes herself as an endless dreamer, passionate creator and true entrepreneur. She has won the FTDC contest at Serbia Fashion Week, giving her the opportunity to participate in FASHIONCLASH. A designer with the soul of an artist, her new collection, 'Sculpted Beauty', was inspired by Rodin's sculptures and the art nouveau era. The dominant veins in Rodin's work provided a direct link to the art nouveau era, known for its dynamic wavy lines. Moved by the emotion in these sculptures, she wanted to channel these in her collection, which she achieved through leather sculpting and handwork. The dominant veins in Rodin's work provided a direct link to the art nouveau era, known for its dynamic wavy lines. It was this anatomical challenge that provided her with inspiration to play with textures through a monochromatic lens.

Iva's collection will be presented at the Show Program on Saturday the 16th of June at the SAM-Decorfabriek. Get your tickets here.

The 10th edition of Serbia Fashion Week

The 10th anniversary of Serbia Fashion Week was held from April 24 - 29. The grand opening of took place in Dunavski Park, the alternative fashion of young designers curated by Srđan Šveljo was held at Kineska Četvrt former industrial complex, in SKC Fabrika. The fashion shows, as always, where staged at the Congress Center Master of Novi Sad Fair. The the closing ceremony will be held at the Serbian National Theatre. On this evening more than 20 organisations and notable people where honored, showing them support they gave to Serbia Fashion Week over the last five years.
I was there receive one of the jubilee awards on behalf of FASHIONCLASH.

Almost since the beginning FASHIONCLASH and Serbia Fashion Week exchanged talents. Several FASHIONCLASH designers where given the stage, while sveral Serbian designers, the winners of FTDC contest, where presented at FASHIONLCLASH Festival such as NEO Design and Moda Mišić. In 2018 Iva Kujundžić will take part at FASHIONCLASH Festival.

On the runway this edition several Serbian and international designers where given the stage. Among them the familiar names such as Bosko Jakovljevic, Bata Spasojević, Marije Šabić, Zvonko, Zvonko Marković and Ana Vasiljevic. Among the international designers where Bosnian designer Milan Senić, Dutch designer Addy van den Krommenacker and FASHIONCLASH designer Peer Cox.

Dutch fashion designer Peer Cox showed his collectin at the 10th edition of Serbia Fashion Week.
With his upcycled collection Peer shows that innovation and sustainability can go hand in hand.
Peer Cox took part at Fashion Makes Sense edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2017.

The 10th edition was closed at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad with a tribute show.
The closing ceremony of Serbia Fashion Week was directed by member of the French Haute Couture institute and Vice-President of Serbia Fashion Week, Eymeric François. François worked with Mugler from 1997 to 1999. The choreography was inspired by the golden age of haute couture in Paris – the 80s and 90s, when supermodels were superstars. The models’ hair will be styled by Frederic Pavard of Alexandre de Paris, a legendary hair stylist who has worked with renowned fashion houses such as Chanel, Yves Saint-Laurent, Givenchy, Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler for over 40 years.

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Peer Cox - Serbia Fashion Week

Dutch fashion designer Peer Cox showed his collectin at the 10th edition of Serbia Fashion Week.
With his upcycled collection Peer shows that innovation and sustainability can go hand in hand.
Peer Cox took part at Fashion Makes Sense edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2017. Currently he lives and works in Berlin.

www.peercox.com
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Fashion Talent Design Competition at Serbia Fashion Week

winner FTDC Iva Kujundžić

One of the highlights at the 9th of Serbia Fashion Week is the young designers contest. Finalists of the Fashion Talent Design Competitions, the FTDC and EFTDC, presented their collections.  Iva Kujundžić, the winner of the FTDC, the national talent category wins participation at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2018, Igor Lukić winner of EFTDC wins presentation at Serbia Fashion Week.

Taking place in Novi Sad, Serbia Fashion Week is one of the biggest fashion events in Eastern Europe. each edition designers from all over the world are showing alongside national designers. The event takes place from 20 - 27 November in the city of Novi Sad, Serbia's second largest city in the Vojvodina region. Novi Sad is elected to be European Capital of Culture in 2021. Since few years FASHIONCLASH collaborates with Serbia Fashion Week by means of exchanging designers.

http://serbiafashionweek.com

Maarten van Mulken - Serbia Fashion Week

Dutch fashion talent, Maastricht based designer Maarten van Mulken has been invited to represent to represent FASHIONCLASH Festival at Serbia Fashion Week.
Maarten showed his collection 'Kill Your Darlings' that he presented at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2017 edition.
"They call deleting ideas ‘killing your darlings’, but often good ideas are being cancelled instead of the weakest. The general idea is getting dumbed-down to make it more commercial and gain more money. This to me refers to fashion being dead, because it’s all about just selling as much as possible these days.
Fashion to me is not dead, it just needs to change into a new form and people need to be encouraged to pursue their ideals/ideas instead of killing them."
Taking place in Novi Sad, Serbia Fashion Week is one of the biggest fashion events in Eastern Europe. each edition designers from all over the world are showing alongside national designers. The event takes place from 20 - 27 November in the city of Novi Sad, Serbia's second largest city in the Vojvodina region. Novi Sad is elected to be European Capital of Culture in 2021. Since few years FASHIONCLASH collaborates with Serbia Fashion Week by means of exchanging designers. http://serbiafashionweek.com

European Fashion Talents Design Competition

Serbia Fashion Week and the National Chamber of Fashion Serbia organize a international platform to identify and support young designers – European Fashion Talents Design Competition.
The aim of this competition is to give young designers the opportunity to achieve and develop an international career in the fashion industry. Interested candidates must be students of fashion design or from an other creative department. Young designers under 30 years may also apply.

The ones who win the first three places will receive amazing awards and support in furthering theirs careers in fashion.  The deadline is March 18, 2017

The requirements and information listed here

Serbia Fashion Week SS 2017

The spring/summer 2017 edition of Serbia Fashion Week took place in from November 7 - 12 in Novi Sad, the recently elected Cultural Capital of Europe for 2021. The schedule of the event features an extensive program with fashion shows of emerging and renowned designers from Serbia and abroad.
Since few years FASHIONCLASH partnered with Serbia Fashion Week with aim to support young designers. In this context Betaomega from Czech Republic where invited on behalf of FASHIONCLASH Festival.
One of the highlights of the fashion week is the young designers contest - the EFTDC (international designers ) and the FTDC (serbian designers). The winner of the FTDC, Neo Design by the promosing designer Nevena Ivanović won participation in the coming FASHIONCLASH Festival. Other finalists from Serbia where Jelena Đukanović and Katarina Romčević. International finalists where Polona Roblek and Nina Grubek from Slovenia and Strangelove from Belarus by designers Marina Smalygova and Victoria Tkacheva.
Furthermore on the program where FASHIONCLASH designers Marta Miljanic and Branko Popovic.

http://serbiafashionweek.com/en/

Neo Design

Moda Mišić at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Meet Serbian designer Ivana Mišić (Moda Mišić) winner of Fashion Design Talent Competition at Serbia Fashion Week. Her price included participation at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016.

FASHIONCLASH teamed up with Serbian Fashion Week  with aim to support young talent by means of talent exchange. Part of the SFW programme was the FDTC for Serbian designers, the winner of the competition wins FCF participation. Ivana is following Zorica Jadranski, the winner of FTDC 2015.

You can see Moda Mišić collection ‘Phoenix-Rebirth of woman's strength' at FASHIONCLASH Festival on Saturday July 2 Show 5 22:00. You can get your tickets here.

When did you realize you wanted to be a fashion designer? How long have you been designing clothing? 
When I was a child, I wanted to be a fashion designer when I grow up. My mum sewed me everything I wanted and always according to my idea. Then, when time came, I started going to High school for textile and design and on my second year of study I started designing seriously and actively. Since then 10 years have past.

Bluedenîmes & Minou Lejeune at Serbia Fashion Week

FASHIONCLASH Festival designers Bluedenîmes & Minou Lejeune where given the opportunity to present their collection at Serbia Fashion Week in Novi Sad Serbia.

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European Fashion Talent Design Competition

EFTDC 2015: Galina Drozd S/S 2016

Serbia Fashion Week open call for entries for European Fashion Talent Design Competition

WHAT IS EFTDC?

European Fashion Talent Design Competition (EFTDC) is a national platform for recognizing and supporting young designers who wish to establish and develop international career in the fashion industry.

WHO CAN APPLY?

EFTDC is open for all students of fashion design and other creative courses, as wečč for young designers under 30 years of age.

CATEGORIES

Women's clothing, men's clothing, children's clothing, accessories and footwear.

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Originality, contemporary relevancy, composition, cut and final fit of the garments.

Please make sura that inside of your garments are as well made as the outside of the garments.

EFTDC JURY MEMBERS

- National Fashion Chamber of Serbia representatives

- Mr. Donald Potard (ex CEO of Jean-Paul Gautier Haute Couture House)

- Mr. Marcellous L. Jones ( TheFashionInsider.com Magazine and Fashion Insider TV)

- Mr. Eymeric Francois, French Couturier

TO PARTCIPATE IN THE COMPETITION, SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING:

1. Application – download at www.serbiafashionweek.com

2. Please include your CV

3. 5 sketches in A3 format

4. Sketches may be either scanned and sent electronically with the application. Sketches may be placed on a CD and mailed with the application to the address below.

FIRST PRIZE

• Exhibition of the sketches and one produced model at SFW2016 in April
• Fashion show at the fall SFW 2016
• Photo shooting for the fall edition of SFW2016
• 1^st place plaque
• Reimbursement in the amount of 500 euros for the material for the winning models production
• Editorial in Parisian fashion magazine The Fashion Insider
• Free collection presentation at Serbia Fashion Week (April 2017)

SECOND PRIZE

• Exhibition of the sketches and one produced model at SFW2016 in April
• Fashion show at the fall SFW 2016
• Photo shooting for the fall edition of SFW2016
• 2^nd place plaque

EFTDC 2015: Patricia Blin

THIRD PRIZE

• Exhibition of the sketches and one produced model at SFW2016 in April
• Fashion show at the fall SFW 2016
• Photo shooting for the fall edition of SFW2016
• 3^rd place plaque

SPECIAL TERMS FOR THE EFTDC SEMI-FINALISTS:

10 semi-finalists must produce one model of their choice from the submitted sketches. The model must be submitted no later than April 6, 2016 to the address of the National Fashion Chamber of Serbia. Or the semi-finalist can bring the model personally to the Jury Day on April 8, 2016 in Novi Sad.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

All entries must be received by March 6, 2016

APPLICATION ADDRESS

National Fashion Chamber of Serbia

Bulevar cara Lazara 79b

21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

ELECTRONIC ENTRIES

Please send all required documentation via e-mail at serbiafw.eftdc@gmail.com

Ivana Mišić wins participation FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Serbia Fashion Week, ss 2016 edition took place from November 10-16 in the city of Novi Sad in Serbia. FASHIONCLASH teamed up with SFW last year with aim to support young talent by means of talent exchange.
Part of the SFW programme is the FDTC Fashion Design Talent Competition for Serbian designers and EFDTC Fashion Design Talent Competition for international designers.
The winer of FDTC, designer Ivana Mišić is invited to be part of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016.

More images and impressions of Serbia Fashion Week SS2016 see BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG.

Flora Miranda at Serbia Fashion Week

Flora Miranda represented FASHIONCLASH Festival at Serbia Fashion Week in (Novi Sad Serbia)

http://www.floramiranda.com

EFTDC - European Fashion Design Talent Competition

Serbia Fashion Week calls  students of all the Academies of Fashion Design in Europe to participate in a contest. 

Following the success of the FTDC - Fashion Design Talent Competition in 2014, a competition at a national level, SFW decided to give an opportunity to students from European countries. So, in 2015 they will organize the EFTDC - European Fashion Design Talent Competition.
This is an exceptional opportunity for young talents who want to break into the top of the fashion scene.

Winner of FTDC - Fashion Design Talent Competition 2014, Zorica Jadranski won participation at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015.

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FASHIONCLASH at Serbia Fashion Week

ANDREA LAZZARI Plùs Que Ma Viè

FASHIONCLASH designers ANDREA LAZZARI Plùs Que Ma Viè and Marko Marosiuk where invited to show their collection at Serbia Fashion Week, an international event that took place from 14 - 19 October in Novi Sad in Serbia.
FASHIONCLASH was also there to officially sign a cooperation agreement with Serbia Fashion Week, which will include exchange of one designer each year. On that occasion FASHIONCLASH awarded on of the finalists of FTDC Finals during Serbia Fashion Week. Winning designers Zorica Jaranski will show her collection at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015.

http://www.serbiafashionweek.com